CRIMECON DENVER 2025: Gabby Petito - Say Her Name
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline
4.2 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Before a live audience at Crime Con Denver 2025, Nancy Grace is joined by Gabby Petito's father, Joe, and stepmom, Tara, along with Joseph Scott Morgan, professor of forensics at Jacksonville State University, and Sheryl McCollum, Cold Case Investigative Research Institute founder.
Hear how the Petitos learned of their daughter's death, as well as how they have dealt with the knowledge that Brian Laundrie's parents reportedly knew Gabby was dead and did not share the information.
Learn more at the Gabby Petito Foundation, https://gabbypetitofoundation.org, and donate to their fundraiser to raise money for a security fence for a domestic violence shelter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:10.8 | She is a former prosecutor, legal analyst, host of crime stories and victims advocate. |
| 0:17.5 | Please welcome Nancy Grace. |
| 0:34.6 | Thank you so much. First of all, I want to thank you all for being up bright and early this morning to be here |
| 0:40.7 | with who I consider friends. |
| 0:45.4 | And you know, you meet friends in all sorts of ways, but I think friends that are the closest |
| 0:53.4 | to me are those that have lived through something, lived |
| 0:58.8 | through something together and come out on the other side. |
| 1:04.4 | You know, like in the foxhole with you, right? |
| 1:08.4 | Like people I tried cases with, my longtime investigator, Ernest, my family, |
| 1:13.6 | who went through the murder of my fiance with me. I slept in the bed with them every night. |
| 1:22.6 | They tried to feed me. They helped me get back in school when I dropped out. They went through it and we |
| 1:30.3 | came out the other side. And I am so happy to introduce to you four incredible friends. |
| 1:39.3 | First of all, let me introduce to you Joe and Tara, the parents, the dad and stepmom of Gabby Petito. |
| 1:52.0 | Thank you. For all they've been through, she actually was going to leave her pocketbook |
| 2:09.1 | in a conference room. |
| 2:10.2 | I'm like, I'm like, okay. |
| 2:17.1 | I think I'm right there. |
| 2:19.7 | You still want to sit by him? |
| 2:21.3 | Is that, is that okay? |
| 2:22.5 | 25 years ago, probably not. |
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